From Philosophical Research
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- U.S. Trotskyists care about Cuba -> this seems intuitively false but you see them actually in support now so that's very confusing. maybe it's worth investigating the reasons why.
point in favor: referred to creation of Cuba as Communist revolution. [1]
point in favor: put defending Cuba next to overthrowing U.S. capitalism. [2]
point against: if they overthrow U.S. capital, they can hypothetically create Trotskyism in the United States and then start pressuring Cuba. look at both of these videos and you see a subtext that they talk way less about Cuba than their own aims and are almost mentioning Cuba just to make themselves look good.
point for: RCI claims "capitalism was abolished" in Cuba. [3]
point against: claims Cuban revolution happened in contradiction to Stalin as a generic anti-imperialist movement. the peasants defeated the bourgeoisie and then a Marxist party was created [4]
point against: implies that Deng Xiaoping Thought is not allowed. although the factual reasoning, that the national bourgeoisie will not yield to allow Bolshevism to begin, is technically correct. in China the herd of cats just kinda goes on and on and on, and nobody really likes that. the problem is blaming the CPC, when it's not really their fault because they just support whoever protects and unifies China against the outside; they would have been dissolved and replaced with the eight Liberal-republican parties already if they truly were on the same side. [5]
neutral point: claims Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were on the side of the peasants. I think that is historically accurate. [6]
neutral point: claims that in 1962 Cuba was creating Bolshevism, implying that it is on the road to becoming an orange country.
Related[edit]
- 3405Anarchists can be a class (meta-Marxism) / (9k)
Ideology codes[edit]
- IV / Trotskyism
- IV / Revolutionary Communists International
- IV / Revolutionary Communists of America
